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Giving: Opus Foundation Awards Over $1.5 Million in Impact Fund Grants
With a commitment to help build communities and support efforts that make them better places to live, work and raise families, the Opus Foundation recently awarded over $1.5 million in grants to deserving nonprofit organizations across the country.
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Giving: City Year Kansas City Named 2025 Building Community Award Winner
Working to address the lack of equitable access to educational opportunities throughout Kansas City, as the recipient of this year’s Building Community Award, City Year Kansas City will receive a $72,000 grant from the Opus Foundation.
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Giving: Opus Foundation Grant Helps Develop Future CRE Professionals at University of St. Thomas
The Opus Foundation’s $1.5 million grant, given in 2021, has had a lasting impact on students enrolled in the University of St. Thomas’ Real Estate Program.
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Giving: InspireMSP Benefits from Transformational Grant
InspireMSP is putting their 2024 Gerry Rauenhorst Building Community Award grant to good use by making their programming scalable and sustainable and expanding their Career Day opportunity to hundreds of additional students.
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Giving: Heart Ministry Center is the Heart & Soul for Omaha’s Underserved
The Opus Foundation provided the Heart Ministry Center with a $75,000 grant to continue to grow their digital literacy program, a program the Foundation helped pilot with a $50,000 grant in 2023.
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Giving: Girl Scouts River Valleys is Breaking Down Racial Barriers to Girl Power
Over the last four years, the Opus Foundation has supported Girl Scouts River Valleys with grants totaling more than $220,000 for recruitment of racially diverse members and expansion of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience.
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Giving: Opus Foundation Awards Over $3.4 Million in Grants
Committed to building community for a better tomorrow, in December 2024 the Opus Foundation awarded over $3.4 million in grants.
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Associates Celebrate Founder’s Day Company Wide
We celebrated our annual Founder’s Day with company-wide volunteer events.
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Associates, Foundation Support Youth Success Camp
Mike Stromberg and Megan Garner mentored many youth and introduced them to careers in real estate development and construction.
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Associates, Opus Foundation Support Carter Work Project
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project was hosted by Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity at The Heights, a large development on St. Paul’s East Side.
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New Pathways for Youth is Paving a Road to a Better Tomorrow
With a $125,000 grant distributed over two years from the Opus Foundation, New Pathways for Youth is expanding an extremely successful program.
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PREP-KC: Preparing Students for a World of Possibility
The Opus Foundation and associates have supported PREP-KC’s vision with the $70,000 Gerry Rauenhorst Building Community Award grant in 2023 and a $60,000 grant in 2024.
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CommonBond Rises to the Challenge to Provide Affordable Childcare
Rise on 7 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, features Rise Early Learning Center, making it Minnesota’s first co-located affordable housing and childcare community.
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Opus Foundation Approves $1.4 Million in Grants
Committed to building community for a better tomorrow, in May 2024 the Opus Foundation approved nearly $1.4 million in single and multi-year grants to nine impactful nonprofit organizations.
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Inspiring Youth Through InspireMSP Partnership
Coordinated by Joel Prater, Director of Visualization and Technology, students at three Twin Cities area high schools visited our architecture group and got a hands-on-look at careers in this creative field.
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InspireMSP Named 2024 Building Community Award Winner
Inspire MSP connects the power of imagination with the practice of exploration to create boundless opportunities that change lives and communities. They will receive a $71,000 grant from the Opus Foundation.
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Care for Communities: A Collaborative Commitment with Hallmark
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Our work with Hallmark extended past the bounds of the Liberty, Missouri, jobsite. Together, we gave back to the community to help make it a better place to live, work, play and raise a family.
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Construction Education Foundation Expands Program with Opus Foundation Grant
Denver-based Construction Education Foundation is expanding its Careers in Construction program with the help of a $60,000 grant from the Opus Foundation.
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Christopher House Advances Early Childhood Education Initiative with Opus Foundation Grant
The Chicago nonprofit is building a strong pipeline of qualified early childhood teachers with the help of a $300,000 multi-year grant from the Opus Foundation.
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